Obsidian (Lux, #1) in Hype or Like Friday

Jun 12, 2016 Jillian Quinn rated it it was amazing

Shelves: rave-review

When Katy Swartz moves from Florida to West Virginia the summer before her senior year, she meets Daemon Black, her super hot and extremely arrogant neighbor. He acts like he hates her on sight, making it difficult for her to become friends with his twin sister. But his sister ignores him and Katy doesn’t care about Daemon’s ego or his ignorant comments.

I liked her for this reason. Right from the start Katy puts Daemon in his place, which not only made her relatable for me but also helped me to When Katy Swartz moves from Florida to West Virginia the summer before her senior year, she meets Daemon Black, her super hot and extremely arrogant neighbor. He acts like he hates her on sight, making it difficult for her to become friends with his twin sister. But his sister ignores him and Katy doesn’t care about Daemon’s ego or his ignorant comments.

I liked her for this reason. Right from the start Katy puts Daemon in his place, which not only made her relatable for me but also helped me to understand her more later in the series. Katy is attracted to Daemon, and based on his description and that mouth of his, I’d be, too, if I were her. Where can I find me a hot alien boy toy? Seriously. He reminds me of a younger version of Superman and Ian Somerhalder put together. Yum!

If you like the enemies to friends to lovers trope, you will like this book.

When Daemon’s sister forces him to hang out with Katy for “bonus points”, the tension between them is thick. After one of their many arguments, Daemon exposes his alien abilities to Katy by stopping a moving truck. I know this sounds like a spoiler, but this part of the story is in the Goodreads synopsis.

One of my favorite things about this series is that Katy is a book blogger. Her blog is called Katy’s Krazy Obsession. She keeps books all over her house, makes videos, and talks about nonsensical stuff only bookish people, like us, can appreciate. The day Katy meets Daemon she walks over to his house in a T-shirt that says My blog is better than your vlog. How funny. I love it.

The Lux series is compared to Twilight. There’s even a few lines of dialogue that reminded me of it, as well as some minor similarities, but you all know I’m not a fan of Twilight. If it wasn’t for Robert Pattinson, I don’t think I would’ve watched a single movie. Anyway, Daemon kicks the shit of Edward any day, and Katy is no Bella, not even close. She’s never depicted as this sad human who can’t take care of herself. If anything, Katy’s always trying to be like one of the Luxen, which is what the aliens are called in this series.

The gist of the story is that Luxen have enemies from another planet called Arum that want to steal their powers. The US government knows about the existence of aliens and monitors them, so there’s always the threat that the government will intervene, if necessary. And after Daemon reveals himself around Katy, she has a glow that Arum can trace, forcing Daemon to babysit her. From there, the relationship between Katy and Daemon develops, and there’s a cool twist at the end you don’t see coming that propels the story throughout the series.

Bottom line is you that need to read this book.

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Aug 27, 2015 ❤ Aly ❤ rated it really liked it

Shelves: a-to-z-challenge-2016, 2016, 2019

Reread 2: January 2019- I enjoyed this book just as much as the first time. I also hope to continue with the series as I have only read the first book. There also were parts that I picked up on this time that I did not the first.

I really enjoyed this book. I believe I will be reading the rest of this series.

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Jan 23, 2013 Nikki rated it it was amazing

Shelves: almost-favorites, fictional-friends, love-stories, series, 2014-reads

While I initially thought it had a slow, slightly immature start, this book quickly morphed into a fast paced, addictive read. Perfect mix of plot, suspense, drama, and love story. So anxious to see how this story plays out!

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Mar 10, 2016 Kirsty rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: library-copy, reviewed

A lot of people I follow on youtube go on about this book, and I loved The Problem With Forever so I was keen to test this out. Whilst I found the writing and just general style of the book quite simple I also read through it so quickly and had a lot of fun reading it so sometimes simple isn't always bad.

Katy has moved from Florida to West Virginia after her dad died and she discovers on her second day in her new tiny town that there is something kind of weird going on. Her neighbours are very s ...more

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Jan 03, 2018 Jorelene rated it it was ok

2/5 stars

I definitely think this book is overhyped. I loved Armentrout’s Half-Blood series (even with having to overlook its similarities with Vampire Academy), but Obsidian didn’t really do it for me.

It reminded me A LOT of Twilight. I loved Twilight back when I read it in high school, but that was back before I knew what a healthy relationship was like. The male protagonist’s tendency to be hot then cold with the flip of a switch, as well as overbearing attitude with telling our main protago ...more

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Dec 07, 2011 Jean ~ Kindle Queen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I was pleasantly surprised by this book. It's refreshing to focus on aliens instead of vampires, werewolves, fae, etc. Who would have thought that an alien book would work? Well, it does. I loved Katy, and the parts about her book blog were so great. Daemon was so infuriatingly irritating (aaargh!), but wonderful when he needed to be. (My book included the first chapter from Daemon's point of view, and I think it helped Daemon's character a little bit.) This was a quick read for me. I'm always s ...more

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Apr 17, 2015 Sabrina rated it it was amazing

Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout is so flippin' amazing! I loved it to the moon and the back. It left me absolutely speechless. My mind is seriously blown.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of Science Fiction books, but this book is a great exception! I don't even know how to describe it.

The characters were strong and relatable, and the storyline was solid. Though, at first, I didn't find myself relating to the characters, and the plot wasn't so complex; but it changed later in the story. It got r ...more

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